Taliban suspends polio vaccines in Afghanistan, U.N. says

As in Pakistan, failure of campaign to halt debilitating disease continues

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Afghanistan's Taliban regime has halted polio prophylaxis in a land where an eradication campaign was making significant progress until 2022. © Reuters

DUBAI (AP) -- The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said Monday.

Afghanistan is one of two countries in which the spread of the potentially fatal, paralyzing disease has never been stopped. The other is Pakistan.

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